Police in Osun have arrested a 24-year-old woman who allegedly impersonated as a police officer to rob Point of Sale (POS) operators in Osogbo.
Police spokesperson in the state, SP Yemisi Opalola, stated on Wednesday in Osogbo that the suspect was arrested on Tuesday after she was rescued from an irate mob.
“On Tuesday, police rescued a 24-year-old woman from a mob preparing to lynch her for alleged stealing.
“She was brought to Ata-Oja Police Division, Osogbo.
“In the course of interrogation, it was discovered that sometimes in April, the suspect went to a PoS stand and presented herself as a police officer serving at Ata-Oja Police Division.
“She `arrested’ the sales girl and seized her bag containing a PoS machine, N20,000 and one phone valued N15,000.
“On their way to Ata-Oja Police Divisional headquarters, the suspect tricked her victim to make a photocopy of a document, but she ran away with her seized bag,’’ Opalola stated.
She added that when the suspect was arrested on Tuesday, N246,650, on an Opay PoS machine valued N30,000, one android phone, one Ekiti State University identity card and one voter card were recovered from her.
Two PoS business record books and one I-tel phone without battery suspected to belong to another victim, were also found on the suspect, she added, she stated.
The police spokesperson added that further investigation showed that the suspect had already transferred N100,000 from the PoS machine recovered from her to an account in a commercial bank.
